Scott Beuerlein returns with another Guest Rant and pays tribute to one of the good ones. Somewhere back in the late 80s, I decided I knew more than at least half the landscapers out there and took that as a sign that it was time to start a side...
Posted by Scott Beuerlein on July 5, 2017 at 7:58 am. This post has 9 responses.
I’ve been spending a good deal of time recently at Wave Hill, the 28-acre horticultural paradise in the Bronx – I’ve been asked to write a book about its garden art. Wave Hill is famous for many things: its matchless collection of exquisite plants, its daring color combinations, and...
Posted by Thomas Christopher on July 3, 2017 at 9:07 am. This post has 5 responses.
For months I’d been dying to set my eyes on Joe Lamp’ls new website joegardener.com, hoping for a lot. It launched last week and at the risk of gushing, it includes everything a how-to-garden site should have and some stuff I didn’t think of. In Joe’s words to me...
Posted by Susan Harris on June 29, 2017 at 2:38 pm. This post has one response.
My lust for the perfect prairie meadow show – aided and abated, of course, with the need for a new septic system – began with the lacy-pink flowers of Queen-of-the-Prairie, or Filipendula rubra. I had not seen The Native Queen in all her glory until purchasing our history-worn Hoosier...
Posted by Bob Hill on June 28, 2017 at 7:32 am. This post has 7 responses.
This was to be a post touting the glorious weekend I had exploring the DC area with fellow garden bloggers. But, while I was away, I received news that a nest of birds we’d been hosting has possibly fallen prey to one of the many free-roaming/feral cats that plague...
Posted by Elizabeth Licata on June 27, 2017 at 10:38 am. This post has 30 responses.
Just in time for National Pollinator Week, my Garden Writers region planned a fabulous outing for members – to see the Penn State Trial Gardens near York, PA, especially their trials for pollinator plants. The goal is “to evaluate native species and their cultivars for attractiveness to pollinators and suitability for...
Posted by Susan Harris on June 23, 2017 at 6:50 am. This post has 5 responses.
I’ve posted before on this blog about the attraction of wildlife tracking in the garden. Garden wildlife, I noted then, reminds me of teenagers – the critters eat distressingly huge meals then typically leave without communicating about what they have been up to or what their plans are. Reading...
Posted by Thomas Christopher on June 19, 2017 at 9:30 am. This post has 7 responses.
Gardening get-togethers like the Garden Blogger Fling and Garden Writer events are the best possible ways to see great private gardens, and the Fling attendees coming to the Washington, D.C. area next weekend will see lots of them. But like Elizabeth, when I visit a city that’s new to me...
Posted by Susan Harris on June 16, 2017 at 8:45 am. This post has 3 responses.
While I wait for my first social security check to arrive later this month, I have been thinking about two crucial mentors. Alberta Coleman and Omer Barber fostered my gardening career. They were as different as a peony and a prickly pear. I volunteered to work with Alberta...
Posted by Allen Bush on June 14, 2017 at 7:22 am. This post has 5 responses.
Finally, they’re here. For at least 5 years, now, I have been hearing tales of destruction and dire prophecies from friends and garden visitors who live to the east and northeast of Buffalo. “Do you have the lily beetle yet? They’re everywhere in (Rochester/New England/Ithaca, etc.). I don’t grow...
Posted by Elizabeth Licata on June 13, 2017 at 10:16 am. This post has 7 responses.
Last night the American Horticultural Society held its annual awards gala at its headquarters (above, an estate formerly owned by the Geo. Washington family) on the shores of the Potomac in Alexandria, VA. I was there, along with two GardenRant award-winners an assortment of movers and shakers in the plant world....
Posted by Susan Harris on June 9, 2017 at 7:57 am. This post has 4 responses.
Here’s one item not on the agenda for this month’s Garden Blogger’s Fling in Washington, DC, but I don’t plan to miss it: “Cultivating America’s Gardens,” at the National Museum of American History in Washington. It opened last month and is on view through August 2018, so there’s plenty...
Posted by Elizabeth Licata on June 8, 2017 at 7:51 am. This post has 2 responses.
My daughter, Molly, decided to harvest nettles on our farm in Salvisa last year. I wondered, Why? I must have been lost in the woods. Suddenly, more herbalists are singing the praises of stinging nettles. Urtica dioica is loaded with vitamins and minerals and is also a valuable, anti-inflammatory, weedy...
Posted by Allen Bush on June 7, 2017 at 7:35 am. This post has 4 responses.
There was a certain irony in the timing, given America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. Still, last week was the time when a group of Master Gardeners had asked me to give them a lecture about the possible effects on gardening of global climate change – and...
Posted by Thomas Christopher on June 5, 2017 at 11:46 am. This post has 8 responses.
Some people go to the beach to enjoy the ocean. I do that (a bit) but mostly find myself looking at plants, at gardens. So in late May I walked down the boardwalk at Rehoboth, Delaware and stopped to admire the cedar-shake homes and especially the windswept plants that look just...
Posted by Susan Harris on June 2, 2017 at 8:14 am. This post has 9 responses.
Commented on Till Like It’s 1899! { I have some areas here that are just like that, Professorroush. In those cases, I've sometimes just hacked the ground with a heavy grub hoe,... } – Jul 15, 1:47 PM
Commented on Mort Libby { I am with Scott the list of folks who deserve eternal recognition is vast and inexhaustively long , but I would like to put in... } – Jul 15, 11:00 AM
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Commented on Mort Libby { Profound, beautiful, honest, revealing, moving – everything good writing should be. Scott, I hope someday you publish a book of your own, a gardener’s memoir... } – Jul 14, 7:16 AM
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